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tralia a copy of one of Kipling's volumes of poems, 

 the cheapest edition of which costs six shillings 

 in I,ondon. The Australian belief in protecting 

 local industries has not yet reached the stage of a 

 scheme to encourage the Australian author and 

 publisher, and at the present time the author 

 finds the easiest and most profitable method of 

 publication in L,ondon. To this Mecca many 

 Australians of promise have gone, in time to lose 

 touch with Australia, and to devote themselves 

 to subjects of closer interest to the wider public 

 they address. 



Had it not been for the Bulletin^ the history of 

 the last fifteen years would certainly have con- 

 firmed the dictum of the I/mdon editor. The 

 pages of the Bulletin have always been open to 

 writers of Australian verse or prose stories or 

 sketches of moderate length. 



literary ability and the Australian interest are 

 the two essentials for publication in the Bulletin, 

 and verse and story alike have to be racy of the 

 soil. The Bulletin writers have chosen for their 

 theme the varied aspects of bush life the life of 

 the shearing-shed and the cattle camp, the race- 

 course, the mines, and the bush track. The 

 works of the more popular of these writers have 

 been collected and published in book form, and 

 are now familiar in town and country alike. 

 Henry Lawson, A. B. Paterson, Edward Dyson, 

 Barcroft Boake, Victor Daley, Will Ogilvie, 

 Roderick Quinn, and a number of others bear 



